Don't you hate it when the news is so elemental, it makes you feel stupid for thinking about anything else?Although this movie review is not the only reason I want people to speak out against war with Iran, of course. Call your Senators and Reps at 202-224-3121. Do an action if you cam, though I don't have mobility enough to do this often.
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Your bohemian Crip is usually not a fan of movies waxing metaphorical about disability stuff, and once again, as otherworldly as Dakota Fanning can sometimes appear, casting her is not what it takes to capture the autistic experience, even if that seems far removed from my own disability experience.
However, Wendy Wellcott's quest to understand the world by writing about "Star Trek" kind of grew on me as well as Toni Collette's performance as well-meaning but clueless group-home supervisor Scottie. It feels somewhat true to life that Scottie misunderstanding Wendy's motivations(including knowing next-to-nothing about the Star Trek mythos) drives a lot of the plot, as Wendy has a meltdown that keeps her from mailing her contest entry to Paramount Studios, and launches a journey from her San Francisco group home to the LA studio's mailroom to deliver the script personally.(Any writer can relate to her speech once she arrives, from "Do you know how hard it is to write something?" to the moment when she sneaks her script in the mail slot,
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